Association football top division in Scotland
This article is about the top part of Scottish football since 2013. For other uses, see scots Premiership ( disambiguation )
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The Scottish Premiership, known as the cinch Premiership for sponsorship reasons, [ 1 ] is the top division of the scots Professional Football League ( SPFL ), the league competition for men ‘s master football clubs in Scotland. The scots Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a fusion of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. [ 2 ] There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. sixteen clubs have played in the scots Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season. Rangers are the current league champions, having won the 2020–21 scots Premiership .

competition format [edit ]

Teams receive three points for a acquire and one bespeak for a withdraw. No points are awarded for a passing. Teams are ranked by total points, then finish dispute, and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the baseball club with the most points is crowned league supporter. If the points, finish deviation, goals scored, and neck and neck results between teams are equal, a play-off game held at a neutral venue shall be played to determine the final examination placings. The play-off will only occur when the military position of the teams affects the consequence of the championship, european qualification, delegating, or second stage group allocation and shall not occur otherwise. [ 3 ]

separate [edit ]

The top flight of scots football has contained 12 clubs since the 2000–01 season, the longest period without change in the history of the Scottish football league arrangement. [ 4 ] During this period the scots Premier League, and now the scots Premiership, has operated a “ split ” format. This is used to prevent the need for a 44-game schedule, based on playing each other four times. That format was used in the Scottish Premier Division in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, but it is now excessively senior high school a number of games in a league season. A season, which runs from August until May, is divided into two phases. During the first phase, each club plays three games against every other team, either once at home and doubly away or frailty versa. After this first phase of matches, by which time all clubs have played 33 games, the league splits into two halves – a ‘top six ‘ section and a ‘bottom six ‘ section. Each cabaret plays a foster five matches, one against each of the other five teams in their own section. Points achieved during the first phase of 33 matches are carried advancing to the irregular phase, but the teams compete only within their own sections during the second base phase. After the beginning phase is completed, clubs can not move out of their own half in the league, even if they achieve more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively. At the begin of each season, the SPFL ‘predicts ‘ the likely positions of each club in order to produce a fixture schedule that ensures the best possible probability of all clubs playing each early twice at home and doubly away. This is known as the league seed and is based on clubs ‘ performance in the former season. [ 5 ] If the clubs do not finish in the half where they are predicted to finish, then anomalies can be created in the fastness list. Clubs sometimes play another three times at home plate and once away ( or frailty versa ), [ 5 ] [ 6 ] or a club can end up playing 20 family ( or away ) games in a season. [ 7 ]

promotion and delegating [edit ]

The buttocks placed Premiership club at the end of the season is relegated, and swaps places with the winner of the scottish Championship, provided that the achiever satisfies Premiership entrance criteria. With the creation of the SPFL, promotion and delegating play-offs involving the clear flight were introduced for the first clock in seventeen years. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] The Premiership golf club in eleventh place plays the Championship play-off winners over two legs, with the achiever earning the mighty to play in the scots Premiership the follow season. [ 9 ] This enables two clubs to be relegated from the Premiership each season, with two being promoted. Prior to the universe of the scottish Premiership, only a single club could be relegated each season – with only the second tier champions being promoted. The scottish Football League had used play-offs amongst its three divisions since 2007. [ 10 ]

european reservation [edit ]

UEFA grants european places to the Scottish Football Association, determined by Scotland ‘s stead in the UEFA state coefficient rankings. The Scottish Football Association in turn allocates a number of these european places to final examination scots Premiership positions. At the end of the 2020–21 season, Scotland was ranked 11th in Europe – granting them two sides in the UEFA Champions League, one slope in the UEFA Europa League, and two sides in the UEFA Europa Conference League. For the 2020–21 temper, the top placed team in the Scottish Premiership gained qualification to the Champions League third gear qualifying round, whilst the second placed team entered at the second gear qualify orotund degree. The third base and fourth placed teams entered the inaugural Europa Conference League at the qualifying round stagecoach. [ 11 ] Scotland ‘s station in the Europa League third base qualifying round is awarded to the winners of the scots Cup. Should the winners of that competition have already qualified for european rival, then the fifth placed team besides enters the Europa Conference League moment qualify round, while third placed team ( unless they are cup winners themselves ) are promoted from Europa Conference League to the Europa League third qualifying round. due to the Europa League group stage spot reserved for the Europa Conference League title holder being vacant in 2021–22, it was expected that the 2020–21 scots Cup winner ( St Johnstone ) would enter the Europa League play-off round alternatively, thus guaranteeing at least a group stage berth in the Conference League even if that play-off draw was lost. [ 12 ] A change in the UEFA access list however meant that this will not happen unless there is a far change in the access number of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, with Scotland being the beginning nation to benefit first from any extra direct entries to the play-off orotund. [ 12 ]

fiscal disparity [edit ]

The 2017 ‘Global Sports Salaries Survey ‘ report found a large variation between the wages offered by teams in the scottish Premiership, with champions Celtic paying an average annual wage of £735,040, per player, whilst traditional rivals Rangers could alone pay £329,600 and league runner-up Aberdeen offered £136,382. [ 13 ] The lowest wage offered by any of the twelve member clubs was Hamilton ‘s £41,488 – 17 times less than Celtic, whose wages were close up to the summarize of the early eleven clubs combined. [ 13 ]

The report stated that this disparity was the third-greatest from the 18 leagues surveyed, and that the scottish Premiership offered the third-lowest salaries of those leagues ; by contrast, Celtic ‘s opponents in the Champions League that year paid average wages of £6.5m ( Paris Saint-Germain ) and £5.2m ( Bayern Munich ), seven times higher than the scots golf club. [ 13 ]

Clubs [edit ]

The 12 clubs listed below are competing in the scots Premiership during the 2021–22 season .
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Statistics [edit ]

Championships [edit ]

As of 2021, Scotland ‘s top-flight league backing has been won 55 times by Rangers, 51 times by Celtic. Nine other clubs have won the remaining 19 championships, with three clubs tied for third place with 4 each. The stopping point time the championship was won by a club other than Rangers or Celtic was in 1984–85, by Aberdeen .

Records and awards [edit ]

top scorers [edit ]

As of matches played on 26 December 2021

Scotland international Leigh Griffiths is the top goalscorer in the scots Premiership era with 92 goals, followed by Odsonne Edouard and Adam Rooney on 66. Alfredo Morelos, Billy Mckay, Liam Boyce, Kris Boyd, Kris Doolan, and Niall McGinn are the alone early players to reach 50 goals since the establishment of the scots Premiership .
Italics denotes players still playing professional football,
Bold denotes players however playing in the scottish Premiership .

Broadcasting rights [edit ]

The SPFL ‘s domestic television receiver broadcast conduct presently ranks 16th in Europe among european Leagues .

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